Pics of my hens hatching, will dads be a problem ?

[adriano]

No i didnt force them to sit.
I took eggs at the start which was the 7th of april for the yellow hen and did so as any were laid .
Then on the 3rd of may i thought she was laying an egg when i went in so i left her till later.

That evening she was still there so i got her to move and saw she had been sitting on one egg.
So i placed a few more there and she went back on them .

Same story for the reds, only one was hatching so i left her, went out one day and the other hen had settled in beside her.
But come hatch date when the first hens chicks came out, the other hen left the unhatched eggs and i tried to get them to bring inside but the two of them
went mad for me.
So i left them as i didnt want to stress them or the chicks.
Eventually when i got to get the unhatched eggs and candled them the chicks inside were half formed as such.

I have a reeve hen hatching now at the moment she set herself.

And this is my first year with pheasants, i am using incubators also.

 

[3forfree]

I made up a nest box and put it in the pen and put some eggs in it thnking maybe they would do something. I watched for awhile and the only one that showed any interest to the nest box was the rooster. For about a week now there has been a young wild rooster hanging around my pen. He runs or flys when I go out there, but he's always back. Don't know if he's having any affect on my birds. The rooster and him have crowing wars. Not ever having pheasants before, but living where there are wild ones and hearing them crow, I never new that each rooster had a sound of his own. My dog will hear the wild one crow and run around to the pen, but he doesn't do it when mine crows.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

It's a biological trigger that makes them set, dispite what we may do, you can never just get one to do it. It has to be a natural biological thing for them to go at it.

And Reeves, I was gone say the same thing about the protective nature of them, they do bare watching when they are setting, been whacked many a times over the years by broody pheasants, reeves and silvers especially